The punishment crowd thinks two Dem's. in the legislation will be on board Scott Walker's

[midnight]

bill to criminalize first time DWI....http://www.superiortelegram.com/event/article/id/58281/

For the crowd who loves a good old fashion safety first rant- I already know the sadness of innocent lives destroyed.. But I'm more interested in how they will process an OWI. The two,DWI/OWI seem to work in tandom... Across the country initiatives are being rolled out to legalize medical marijuana. It is a scientific fact that this drug and other prescription drugs stays in your body days after use, and one is not impaired from use of a drug just because metabolites of this drug are found in the body. I'm sure they will find a tidy way to dispense of this fact.... But the bigger concern is our lack of rights for those in need of medical treatment... I think it is more of a health issue than a criminal issue but Scott Walker and the punishment crowd see it differently... While he was County Executive he shifted health care dollars for those in need of mental health treatment to the prisons, along with those in need of mental health treament...So his limited perspective is all about giving away contracts to his supporters... and not about society improvement...

Those prosecuted will be done selectively of course... The poor.... of course and others not towing the line.... But can you imagine some of these alleged OWI/DWI getting to come in front of reflex justice Proser, and citing a reflex response to the situation....


Persons who fall into abusive behavior with drugs and alcohol need medical treatment, and not incareration... The amount of funding to prosecute is always there, but for some reason, treatment for health is not... This bill being launched needs much overview.... We need health care dollars and not prison dollars....

[dembotoz]

1. scott walkers heatlh care plan--put everyone in prison!!!!!!

i have a friend who last year had too much to drink at a brewers game and got pulled over.

she learned her lesson.
she is much more careful now.


would she deserve time in prison

fuck no

[glinda]

2. maybe he will follow one State's new law "Go to Church or jail"

[midnight]

3. Just found this sentence talking about the new legislation dealing with

OWI/DWI:Among the measures are proposals to close pseudoephedrine loopholes. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-wisconsineditoria,0,5926149.story


We need health care and not prison care.... Over the counter drugs that will now become a crime if you are found to be driving with them needs to be looked at with science foundation... Not this vigilante response.... End the war on drugs... Even if it means the police can't make money on it...

[mojowork_n]

4. I'm shocked. Shocked!

This is going to come down like a ton of bricks on the poorest neighborhoods,
the most vulnerable, those with the fewest resources.

And it will dovetail so nicely with the larger plan to
lard the profit line of Republican contributors and supporters.

No matter what the cost, to the rest of us.


These bills in the legislature (both the Assembly and the Senate) to allow expanded hours for liquor sales have been marching steadily forward:

Friday, September 30, 2011
WI Senate Committee Upcoming Vote to Expand Liquor Sales
The Senate Judiciary, Utilities, Commerce and Government Operations Committee will be voting on Tuesday, October 4th at 10:00am on SB-44 . This legislation increases by two hours every day the number of hours that retailers can sell beer and intoxicating liquor. This will allow such sales beginning at 6:00am. If passed, the measure will move on to the full Senate. Your views on SB-44 can be expressed to the following Senators who make up this Committee:

Sen. Zipperer (Chair) 1-800-863-8883
Sen. Kedzie (Vice-Chair) 1-800-578-1457
Sen. Galloway 1-877-496-0472
Sen. Risser [phone]
Sen. Erpenbach 1-888-549-0027

The Assembly version of this Bill, AB-63 passed out of Committee 5-2 on September 13th. You may also contact your own Senator regarding SB-44 or your Assemblyman regarding AB-63 using the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-362-9472.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Senate Committee Advances Expanded Liquor Sales Bill
On a 4-1 vote today, the Senate Judiciary, Utilities, Commerce and Government Operations Committee advanced SB-44, legislation which increases the number of hours that retailers can sell beer and intoxicating liquor. An amendment was also passed enabling municipalities to impose more restrictive hours than those provided in the Bill. SB-44 will now advance to the full Senate. It’s companion legislation, AB-63 also passed recently in Committee and is also advanced to the full Assembly. To share your views with legislators you may use the Legislative Hotline at 1-800- 362-9472.

Also: not as current:

http://www.mygov365.com/legislation/view/id/4d92ddf549e51b7278460100/tab/overview/

The bottom line being, here's how the political contributions from the Wisconsin Grocer's Association have gone (2010):

http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/contributor.phtml?d=382458744

Contributions to Republicans, by percentage, for 2010:


• 96.68 %
  
  

Contributions to Democrats, by percentage, for 2010:


• 3.32 %
  
  

According to this Michelle Malkin column, it sounds like the Wisconsin Grocer's Association has been actively supporting Der Wanker:

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/04/29/may-day-the-wisconsin-witch-hunt-goes-national/

The Wisconsin Grocers Association is bracing for the anti-Walker witch hunt. Anonymous operatives have circulated sabotage stickers on the Internet and around Wisconsin that single out Angel Soft tissue paper (“Wiping your (expletive) on Wisconsin workers”), Johnsonville Sausage (“These Brats Bust Unions”) and Coors (“Labor Rights Flow Away Like A Mountain Stream”). Earlier this week, a “Stick It To Walker” website boasted photos (now deleted) of vandalized Angel Soft tissue packages at a Super Foodtown grocery store in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Screencap above.)

This destruction of private property is illegal. Not that it matters to anti-Walker protest mobsters, who trampled Wisconsin’s Capitol at an estimated $5 million in security, repair and cleaning costs to taxpayers.

The bottom line being, now the grocers association (I wonder what percentage of their membership includes "corner store" owners who sell all the large single-serving sizes of malt liquor?) will
be making more money on the retail side, while on the wholesale side, the industries that depend on cheap prison labor will have an expanded crop of recruits (some of them with job skills!), to feed their balance sheets.